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If the Coaltion succeeds in winning the election today, Warren Truss on track to be deputy prime minister. What do we know about Warren Truss? Our reporter James Glenday has some answers, he's clocked up tens of thousands of km's travelling around the country with the National Party candidates. ...

The marginal Liberal National seat of Flynn will be hotly contested with nine candidates hoping to represent the central Queensland seat. Flynn extends from Gladstone and Gayndah in the east to Emerald and the Gemfields in the west. Agriculture and mining are the major industries in the ...

Have rural voters been forgotten by both sides in the 2010 election campaign? A panel of locals from the marginal central Queensland seat of Flynn talk about the issues that will decide their vote: roads, jobs, high speed broadband and the need for a local dentist. ...

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The global rise of the alt-right movement has caught the attention of politicians and police in Australia. But few could have predicted its followers would have already found a home in our federal parliament. Background Briefing has obtained leaked messages revealing Senator Fraser Anning has ...

After much deliberation, Labor has decided it will only support the first and second stages of the Federal Government's tax plan. But not stage three, which involves flattening the tax system by abolishing the 37 tax bracket in 2024-25, at a cost of $95 billion dollars. Instead, the opposition ...

There were many seats across the country where Labor failed to gain ground on election night. But it was in Queensland where the real damage was done. The final Senate count in Queensland confirms Labor managed to win just one seat the party's worst result in 70 years. It's bad news for Deputy ...

A new analysis of voting by multicultural communities at the federal election has found sharp divisions over immigration may have helped the Coalition to victory in key seats. The study by two experts at the University of Technology, Sydney, suggests many East Asian voters were concerned about ...